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Copyright Is Different From Other Kinds of Property

Updated July 14, 2010 12:01 a.m. ET

I just finished Tony Woodlief's "Curse of the Greedy Copyright Holders" (Taste, July 9) and had to write. I am a copyright holder. My book, "Built to Better the Best," is (at least in my opinion) an interesting, factual account of Henry J. Kaiser's venture into the automobile manufacturing business at the end of World War II.

What does this have to do with anything, let alone your article? Please consider this letter as written permission from me to quote any part of my book at any time you wish. I require...